This professional development activity gives ideas for developing narrative empathy: using the power of story to step into another person’s shoes in the name of justice.
Technology is appealing to most students, but virtual learning presents advantages and disadvantages when we have equity in mind. Get your students thinking about what a virtual education really means.
This toolkit will provide you and your colleagues with extra resources for learning about equity issues related to school lunch, as well as an opportunity to take action in making lunchtime a just time at your school.
Field trips can be a great opportunity to take critical literacy to a new level. This toolkit will help you prepare your students to take on social justice issues on trips.
Family visits can be helpful for teachers and students, yet it can be hard to figure out how to incorporate them. This team professional development activity gives teachers a chance to determine how family visits might work in their school context.
We need to consider equity when we talk about “Bring Your Own Device” policies. This toolkit involves students in conversations that analyze both the financial and emotional costs of implementing a BYOD policy.
Michelle Alexander wrote The New Jim Crow to start conversations about race and mass incarceration in the United States. This toolkit develops student vocabulary about these themes and challenges them to create interview questions for another author who writes about social justice.
Libraries are resources for students who need academic help as well as for those who want to fight for justice. Help your students make the most of their school or community library.